Observations on lithotomy, and on the formation of urinary calculi / by John Charles Litchfield.

  • Litchfield, John Charles.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Observations on lithotomy, and on the formation of urinary calculi / by John Charles Litchfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    OBSERVATIONS AFTER-TREATMENT. When the operation, observes Sir Astley Cooper, is concluded the patient is unbound ; but the legs should not be immediately brought together, if any bleeding continue, as the blood is apt to pass back into the bladder, where it coagulates; and pro- ducing great urgency to make water, the coa- gulum is forced out, occasioning a renewal of the hoemorrhage. No dressing is to be ap- plied to the wound,* but a folded sheet or * If I may presume to offer an opinion, it would be that, a tube should be introduced into the bladder, and a piece of lint dipped in oil, put over the wound, and the bandage
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